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Exhibitions to See This Summer in New York 2025

29.05.2025. New York

Inside MoMA. Photo by Amalia López. 2024.

To kick off the summer, we can’t think of a better plan than gallery-hopping through New York. Here’s our pick of must-see shows —artists and works you won’t want to miss.

Para empezar el verano, no se nos ocurre un mejor plan que recorrer las galerías de Nueva York. Esta es nuestra selección de exposiciones recomendadas: artistas, galerías y obras que debes conocer.

1. Picasso: Tête-à-tête
Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue | Until July 3

Pablo Picasso, Picasso: Tête-à-tête, 2025, installation view. Pablo Picasso. Picasso: Tête-à-tête, 2025, installation view. Artwork © 2025 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Owen Conway. Courtesy Gagosian

For its final exhibition at the legendary Madison Avenue location, Gagosian presents Picasso: Tête-à-tête, in collaboration with the artist’s daughter, Paloma Picasso. Spanning works from 1896 to 1972, the show brings together over fifty rarely seen paintings, sculptures, and drawings. Several are on view for the first time ever, offering a deeply personal look at the many lives of one of the 20th century’s most iconic artists.

En su última exhibición en el icónico espacio de Gagosian en Madison Avenue, Picasso: Tête-à-tête reúne más de cincuenta obras poco vistas del artista español. Pinturas, esculturas y dibujos que abarcan toda su carrera —de 1896 a 1972— se presentan en colaboración con Paloma Picasso, su hija. Algunas piezas nunca antes han sido mostradas al público. Esta exposición íntima abre una ventana personal a uno de los creadores más influyentes del siglo XX.

2. Alicja Kwade: Telos Tales
Pace Gallery, 508–510 West 25th Street | Until August 15

Alicja Kwade: Telos Tales. 508 & 510 West 25th Street, New York, NY 10001. May 7–August 15, 2025. Photography courtesy Pace Gallery.

Polish artist Alicja Kwade presents Telos Tales at Pace Gallery, her first solo exhibition at the New York location since joining the gallery in 2023. The show features large-scale sculptures and mixed-media works that, using everyday objects like mirrors, clocks, and stones, question our perception of time, matter, and reality.

La artista polaca Alicja Kwade presenta Telos Tales en Pace Gallery, su primera exposición individual en la sede de Nueva York desde que se unió a la galería en 2023. La muestra reúne esculturas a gran escala y obras en medios mixtos que, a partir de objetos cotidianos como espejos, relojes y piedras, cuestionan nuestra percepción del tiempo, la materia y la realidad.

3. Mind & Hands
Flou, 42 Greene St. Soho | Until July 15

Textil de Agustín Nicolás Rivero, Minds & Hands 2025. Fotografía: Simón Filigrana.

EXCLAMA Projects and FLOU presents Mind & Hands, its first exhibition in New York as part of NYCxDESIGN 2025. This exhibition offers a reflection on contemporary Colombian art through works that dwell at the intersection of the artistic, the artisanal, and the functional.

The show brings together textile and sculptural pieces by three Colombian artists whose practices are rooted in material sensitivity, memory, and origin. Agustín Nicolás Rivero presents felt-based textile artworks crafted using a blend of personal and traditional techniques. Rosana Escobar transforms fiquea traditional Colombian fiber—into organic structures that challenge notions of femininity and domesticity through sculptural gesture. Meanwhile, Asicaz Monzón-Aguirre explores ceramics as a medium to imagine forms that evoke both alien and ancestral qualities, suggesting new identities through touch and materiality.

The exhibition opened to the public on May 15 at the FLOU showroom in Soho and will remain on view until July 15, 2025.

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EXCLAMA Proyectos y FLOU presenta Mind & Hands, la primera exposición en Nueva York en el marco de NYCxDESIGN 2025. Esta muestra propone una reflexión sobre el arte contemporáneo colombiano a través de obras que habitan la frontera entre lo artístico, lo artesanal y lo funcional. La exposición reúne piezas textiles y escultóricas de tres artistas colombianos que trabajan desde una sensibilidad material profundamente arraigada a su origen y memorias. Agustín Nicolás Rivero presenta piezas de arte textil en fieltro trabajado con técnicas personales y tradicionales, Rosana Escobar transforma el fique —una fibra tradicional colombiana— en estructuras orgánicas que cuestionan lo femenino y lo doméstico a través del gesto escultórico. Por su parte, Asicaz Monzón-Aguirre explora la cerámica como medio para imaginar formas entre lo alienígena y lo ancestral, evocando identidades posibles desde lo táctil.

La muestra abrió al público el 15 de mayo en el showroom de FLOU en Soho. Mind & Hands estará abierta hasta el 15 de julio de 2025.

4. Carnival
Jeffrey Deitch, 18 Wooster Street | Until June 28

Photo by Genevieve Hanson. Courtesy Jeffrey Deitch.

Jeffrey Deitch transforms the gallery into a carnival of images, colors, and characters. This group exhibition revisits the circus as a space of marginality, festivity, and subversion. Artists from different generations and geographies explore the spectacle as a place where social norms are suspended and the unacceptable becomes celebration.

La galería Jeffrey Deitch convierte su espacio en un carnaval de imágenes, colores y personajes. Esta exposición colectiva retoma la figura del circo como territorio de lo marginal, lo festivo y lo subversivo. Artistas de distintas generaciones y geografías exploran el espectáculo como un lugar donde las reglas sociales se suspenden, donde lo inaceptable se vuelve celebración.

5. Rebecca Warren: Metropolis
Matthew Marks Gallery, 522 West 22nd Street | Until June 28

Rebecca Warren, Felicity, 2025. Hand-painted bronze with painted wood on painted MDF pedestal with wheels, 78 1/2 x 36 5/8 x 30 1/2 inches
199 x 93 x 78 cm. © Rebecca Warren, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery.

Matthew Marks presents Metropolis, a new exhibition by Rebecca Warren, featuring thirteen hand-painted bronze sculptures. At the center of the show are ten life-sized female figures—nude but for traces of clothing—marked by textured, forcefully worked surfaces. Conceived as a unified group, some of the figures hold wooden elements, either cast in bronze or painted to mimic other materials.

Matthew Marks presenta Metropolis, una nueva exposición de Rebecca Warren que reúne trece esculturas de bronce pintadas a mano. En el centro de la muestra se encuentran diez figuras femeninas de tamaño real —desnudas, salvo por rastros de vestimenta— con superficies texturizadas y trabajadas con fuerza. Concebidas como un conjunto, algunas de las figuras sostienen elementos de madera, ya sea fundidos en bronce o pintados para imitar otros materiales.

6. Lindsey Adelman: The Hardware Diaries
The Future Perfect, 8 St. Luke’s Pl | Until June 16

Courtesy of The Future Perfect and Lindsey Adelman.

Lindsey Adelman, lighting designer and artist, presents The Hardware Diaries, a new exhibition of illuminated sculptures that continues her exploration of form and expression. Through a material investigation that hints at both pleasure and pain, the show features over a dozen intricate lighting assemblages—including sconces and pendants—alongside fifteen works on paper.

Lindsey Adelman, diseñadora de iluminación y artista, presenta The Hardware Diaries, una nueva exposición de esculturas iluminadas que continúa su exploración de la forma y la expresión. A través de una investigación material que sugiere tanto el placer como el dolor, la muestra reúne más de una docena de complejos ensamblajes lumínicos —incluidos apliques y lámparas colgantes— junto con quince obras en papel.

7. Michael Armitage: Crucible 
David Zwirner, 533 West 19th Street | Until June 27

Installation view, Michael Armitage: Crucible, David Zwirner, New York, May 8—June 27, 2025. Courtesy David Zwirner

With Crucible, Kenyan-British artist Michael Armitage inaugurates David Zwirner’s new Chelsea space. The exhibition brings together eleven recent paintings and fourteen carved teak panels that reflect on migration as a vital, social, and symbolic experience. It is his first solo exhibition with the gallery since officially joining in 2022. Armitage weaves together contemporary scenes with forms steeped in history, in a practice that bridges the political and the spiritual.

Con Crucible, el artista keniano-británico Michael Armitage inaugura el nuevo espacio de David Zwirner en Chelsea. La muestra reúne once pinturas recientes y catorce paneles de teca tallada que giran en torno a la migración como experiencia vital, social y simbólica. Es su primera exposición individual con la galería desde que se unió oficialmente en 2022. Armitage combina escenas contemporáneas con formas cargadas de historia, en una práctica que cruza lo político y lo espiritual.

8. Magali Lara: Stitched to the Body

ISLAA,  142 Franklin Street | Until August 23

Installation view of Magali Lara: Stitched to the Body, Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), New York, 2025. Photo: George Etheredge.

In her first large scale solo presentation in New York, Magali Lara (Mexico, 1956) presents an intimate narrative centered on the body, domesticity, and politics. Stitched to the Body brings together over fifty works that reflect a career deeply committed to feminist art and interdisciplinary experimentation. Active since the 1970s, Lara is part of a generation of artists who expanded the idea that “the personal is political,” turning drawing, writing, and printmaking into tools of resistance and care.

En su primera gran exposición individual en Nueva York, Magali Lara (México, 1956) despliega una narrativa íntima sobre el cuerpo, lo doméstico y lo político. Stitched to the Body reúne más de cincuenta obras que dan cuenta de una trayectoria comprometida con el arte feminista y la experimentación interdisciplinaria. Activa desde los años setenta, Lara forma parte de una generación de artistas que amplió la consigna de que “lo personal es político”, transformando el dibujo, la escritura y la gráfica en herramientas de resistencia y cuidado.

9. Jim Amaral: Moonwatcher
Instituto de Visión, 88 Eldridge Street, 5th floor | Until August 30, 2025

Moonwatcher, Jim Amaral. Cortesía: institutodevision.com

Instituto de Visión New York presents Moonwatcher, an exhibition by Jim Amaral (1933, California), a Colombian artist born in the United States. Featuring works from various periods of his career, the show brings together sculpture, drawing, and painting to explore ideas rooted in Surrealism. Amaral’s practice blends the mythical and the human, the ritual and the cosmic, offering a poetic reflection on the human experience through art and poetry as spaces where memory, desire, and the invisible unfold.

Instituto de Visión Nueva York presenta Moonwatcher, una exposición del artista Jim Amaral (1933, California), colombiano nacido en Estados Unidos. La muestra reúne obras de distintos periodos de su carrera —entre esculturas, dibujos y pinturas— que exploran ideas ligadas al surrealismo. En ellas, Amaral entrelaza lo mítico y lo humano, lo ritual y lo cósmico, para ofrecer una reflexión poética sobre la experiencia humana, entendiendo el arte y la poesía como espacios donde habitan la memoria, el deseo y lo invisible.

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